Almighty Vice Lord Nation

The Almighty Vice Lord Nation (AVLN) is the second-largest and one of the oldest street gangs in Chicago, Illinois. The Vice Lords were founded in 1958 as an African-American street gang, and the gang became one of the founding members of the People Nation. The AVLN consolidated smaller gangs into their fold, and they adopted Islamic ideologies during the 1980s; their headquarters near Pulaski and 16th Streets is referred to as the "Holy City". The gang grew to have up to 35,000 members, and it was allies with the People Nation and rivals with the Folk Nation.